I've bought stuff through them and their retail site: aliexpress It's pretty safe. You can search for $0 shipping options if you like.
They run the escrow between you and the actually seller. Your money get 'verified' before the order goes in.
Then the seller ships to you. Once you get the order (and it usually comes way faster than DX) you have to log on to Alibaba and indicate that you got the stuff, so they can release the money. Feedback is important, too.
One seller tried to push me off Alibaba and get me to buy direct, but I didn't want to lose the escrow protection.
I've only had one defective product problem, but the seller was very careful to make good.
Hitler himself claimed to be a good Catholic, but just at Dachau they had almost 2,600 Catholic priests, deacons, and bishops imprisoned then killed.
Overall they killed Jews (6,200,000), Poles (2,000,000), the disabled (including children) (250,000), Ukrainian children (8,000), Slavs (25,000), Gays (15,000), Romani (1,500,000), blacks (25,000), pacifists, Belarus (1,670,000), Communists, Soviet POWs (3,000,000), U.S. POWs (2,038), Catholic priests, monks, nuns, lay brothers and seminarians, Freemasons (200,000), Jesuits, Jehovah's Witnesses (5,000), and Protestant pastors plus many other groups and nationalities.
IBM made small arms for the American side. M1 carbines, IIRC... among other things.
If the nazis did one thing right, partnering with hugo boss might have been it. As much as I hate fascists, I have to admit that the black SS uniforms looked pretty sharp.
But yeah, war is a racket. Even the cold war, 'humanitarian missions' and non-war are big money for the military industrial complex. Wonder what sort of ROI they get on their lobby dollars. Quite the setup... Unless of course, you're the taxpayer footing the bill.
Great post. Of course, this went on constantly in almost every conflict. During WWII we were selling scrap metal to Japan.
My point was only about how technology and tyrants have been in bed from the beginning.
Great reference to "War Is A Racket." For those of you who've never read it, it's a brilliant skewering of the military industrial complex, before the term even existed.
Written by a U.S. Marine Corps Major General, who received the Medal of Honor twice, and the only man to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. He is a bad-ass who does NOT mince words. Read it here:
Something seems odd in your post, the reported numbering. Ordered more for historical notoriety? Dachau as #3, it was up and running in the early 1930s. Auschwitz as #1, it was in Poland so its obvious from the war period.
I would guess the card implementation happened after all the camps were up and running (or at least this particular coding). That's how they were able to keep it in alphabetical order.
IBM assisted the Nazi Holocaust by providing the card reading/sorting technology which Nazi Germany used to locate and kill the ethnicities that the Germans wanted wiped out. (Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, etc.) "IBM's German subsidiary (was) known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft"
The actual punch card code for each concentration camp were: Auschwitz — 001; Buchenwald — 002; Dachau — 003; Flossenbürg — 004; Gross-Rosen — 005; Herzogenbusch — 006; Mauthausen — 007; Natzweiler — 008; Neuengamme — 009; Ravensbrück — 010; Sachsenhausen — 011; and Stutthoff — 012.
Sorry I missed that first point... I was thinking of the OP.
Second point,
There would of course be a warrant needed to compel a sample.
However, police might wish to get a sample surreptitiously. To this end, when I mentioned getting it off anything you touch in public, I should have mentioned that they would need to: 1. Identify you visually. 2. See that you (and only you) did handle the object in question. 3. Get the sample before anyone else could touch it.
Obviously, they would also need DNA at the crime scene, or they wouldn't be linking you to anything in particular.
Disclaimer: I have no idea how these things work in Canada!
...I used to often work from a kneeling position......I really want to be able to switch off between sitting and standing.... do part of the day standing, part sitting....
Do the cops who break the law in order to collect evidence get prosecuted for the crimes they commit? There are two ways to deal with the problem of police officers showing contempt for the law while collecting evidence: 1. you use the evidence and prosecute the cop or 2. you toss the evidence out as tainted by the methods used to obtain it. To be honest, I'd prefer 1 but consider 2 to be more reliable in the face of official reluctance to prosecute their own.
#2 is a great idea!
We could have a bunch of rules about which evidence is 'admitted' or 'excluded' from a trial. Then, if the cops didn't get the evidence in just the right way, we wouldn't 'allow' the evidence in the trial.
But seriously, re. your #1: most cops aren't that ready to toss their pensions just to make a case.
First, they said that giving samples (in this case) is voluntary.
Second, the idea of breaking into your house to swab a cup is inane. That said, if really they want your DNA, they can get it off anything you touch in public, car door handle, bank pen, stair rail, computer mouse, elevator button, etc...
'Internship' doesn't necessarily mean they get pay, they just get credit.
No, they're getting paid.
Article: "The student workers received the equivalent of $243.97 per month as compensation for working six days a week, and clocking in 12 hours per day."
So, lesee, that's about 288 hours a month; about 85 cents(US) an hour.
I guess the valuable educational lesson here is: don't work in a Chinese factory.
Unfortunately, they were not asked to work for Foxconn. They were forced to work at Foxconn.
"the lack of gravity means smell - and taste - is impaired. So the food is bland."
Really.
How come nobody else reading Slashdot noticed this ludicrous statement? How can a lack of gravity "impair" smell? Do they mean the SENSE of smell or taste? What are they talking about?
This is correct. Your sense of taste and smell is diminished in zero G. You start slopping on the hot sauce pretty heavily. Also you start to notice a sweet, metallic smell everywhere you go.
They haven't quite figured out why this happens yet, but since we are essentially big bags of water, and in zero G our internal fluid pressure changes, that may upset the way fluids move through our mucosa.
Always bring some Vaseline to the Airports bathroom. I was told that some TSA agents do a very rough fingerjob.
Yeah - it's not that rough. Typically the screener puts his left hand on your left shoulder, his right hand on your right shoulder, and then will very gently start to finger probe your...
So an author can do the work 'for hire' for his own corporation and get preferential treatment?
Not really. A work of corporate authorship still only lasts 120 years after creation, or 95 years after publication (whichever is earlier.)
So, if you are say, a young, 20 year-old songwriter, your personal copyright would last your lifetime (assuming you live to 80, that would be 60 more years) plus 70 more years after you die. That would be 130 years of protection.
If you created a music company, and the song was a "work for hire" for them, you would only get 95 years of protection.
I can picture the scene now... TITLE: "How Bruce Willis originally got his iTunes music collection"
SCENE 1: Captain Koons & Young Bruce INT. 60'S LIVING ROOM - DAY
Captain Koons: Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were trapped in that Cupertino "pit of hell" together over five years.
This iPod was on your Daddy's arm when he was grabbed by the Apple DRM cops. He was captured and put in an Apple store in the mall. He knew if the Apple ‘geniuses’ ever saw that iTunes music collection, that it'd be confiscated; taken away.
The way your Dad looked at it, this music collection was your birthright. He'd be damned if any ‘geniuses’ were gonna put their greasy, hipster hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass.
Five long years, he wore this iPod up his ass. And then he died of dysentery, he gave me the iPod.
I hid this uncomfortable hunk of stainless steel up my ass for two years. Thank god it has rounded corners. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the iPod to you.
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Some of the people on eBay are selling Alibaba stuff.
Some use the same photos and ad copy, but they add on a profit margin and shipping.
I've bought stuff through them and their retail site: aliexpress
It's pretty safe. You can search for $0 shipping options if you like.
They run the escrow between you and the actually seller. Your money get 'verified' before the order goes in.
Then the seller ships to you. Once you get the order (and it usually comes way faster than DX) you have to log on to Alibaba and indicate that you got the stuff, so they can release the money. Feedback is important, too.
One seller tried to push me off Alibaba and get me to buy direct, but I didn't want to lose the escrow protection.
I've only had one defective product problem, but the seller was very careful to make good.
It gets confusing...
Hitler himself claimed to be a good Catholic, but just at Dachau they had almost 2,600 Catholic priests, deacons, and bishops imprisoned then killed.
Overall they killed Jews (6,200,000), Poles (2,000,000), the disabled (including children) (250,000), Ukrainian children (8,000), Slavs (25,000), Gays (15,000), Romani (1,500,000), blacks (25,000), pacifists, Belarus (1,670,000), Communists, Soviet POWs (3,000,000), U.S. POWs (2,038), Catholic priests, monks, nuns, lay brothers and seminarians, Freemasons (200,000), Jesuits, Jehovah's Witnesses (5,000), and Protestant pastors plus many other groups and nationalities.
IBM made small arms for the American side. M1 carbines, IIRC... among other things.
If the nazis did one thing right, partnering with hugo boss might have been it. As much as I hate fascists, I have to admit that the black SS uniforms looked pretty sharp.
But yeah, war is a racket. Even the cold war, 'humanitarian missions' and non-war are big money for the military industrial complex. Wonder what sort of ROI they get on their lobby dollars.
Quite the setup... Unless of course, you're the taxpayer footing the bill.
Great post. Of course, this went on constantly in almost every conflict. During WWII we were selling scrap metal to Japan.
My point was only about how technology and tyrants have been in bed from the beginning.
Great reference to "War Is A Racket." For those of you who've never read it, it's a brilliant skewering of the military industrial complex, before the term even existed.
Written by a U.S. Marine Corps Major General, who received the Medal of Honor twice, and the only man to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. He is a bad-ass who does NOT mince words.
Read it here:
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket1.html
Something seems odd in your post, the reported numbering. Ordered more for historical notoriety? Dachau as #3, it was up and running in the early 1930s. Auschwitz as #1, it was in Poland so its obvious from the war period.
I would guess the card implementation happened after all the camps were up and running (or at least this particular coding). That's how they were able to keep it in alphabetical order.
How much IBM proper knew, I'm not sure.
Good point. Even some German companies didn't know what their stuff was being used for...
Thomas Watson (chairman and CEO) actually went to Germany in 1933 to assist on the deal. We will probably never know how much IBM knew.
This has been going on for decades.
IBM assisted the Nazi Holocaust by providing the card reading/sorting technology which Nazi Germany used to locate and kill the ethnicities that the Germans wanted wiped out. (Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, etc.) "IBM's German subsidiary (was) known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft"
The actual punch card code for each concentration camp were:
Auschwitz — 001; Buchenwald — 002; Dachau — 003; Flossenbürg — 004; Gross-Rosen — 005; Herzogenbusch — 006; Mauthausen — 007; Natzweiler — 008; Neuengamme — 009; Ravensbrück — 010; Sachsenhausen — 011; and Stutthoff — 012.
Unfortunately, they were not asked to work for Foxconn. They were forced to work at Foxconn.
So it would have been okay if they had been forced to work elsewhere? Like HEG, the Samsung supplier http://chinalaborwatch.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/samsung8-271.pdf
Not at all!
There is a word for forced labor, it's called SLAVERY
Yes they could, and then could just consider the result unofficially, while they look for other evidence.
Agreed. Once they have an 'unofficial' suspect I.D. they could move on to build the official case for presentation to the prosecutor.
This would be a cost saver, as they won't be chasing down incorrect leads.
Sorry I missed that first point... I was thinking of the OP.
Second point,
There would of course be a warrant needed to compel a sample.
However, police might wish to get a sample surreptitiously.
To this end, when I mentioned getting it off anything you touch in public, I should have mentioned that they would need to:
1. Identify you visually.
2. See that you (and only you) did handle the object in question.
3. Get the sample before anyone else could touch it.
Obviously, they would also need DNA at the crime scene, or they wouldn't be linking you to anything in particular.
Disclaimer: I have no idea how these things work in Canada!
...I used to often work from a kneeling position... ...I really want to be able to switch off between sitting and standing.... do part of the day standing, part sitting....
Cool! I didn't know priests posted on /.
(I apologize if you're actually a hooker.)
Do the cops who break the law in order to collect evidence get prosecuted for the crimes they commit? There are two ways to deal with the problem of police officers showing contempt for the law while collecting evidence: 1. you use the evidence and prosecute the cop or 2. you toss the evidence out as tainted by the methods used to obtain it. To be honest, I'd prefer 1 but consider 2 to be more reliable in the face of official reluctance to prosecute their own.
#2 is a great idea!
We could have a bunch of rules about which evidence is 'admitted' or 'excluded' from a trial. Then, if the cops didn't get the evidence in just the right way, we wouldn't 'allow' the evidence in the trial.
But seriously, re. your #1: most cops aren't that ready to toss their pensions just to make a case.
First, they said that giving samples (in this case) is voluntary.
Second, the idea of breaking into your house to swab a cup is inane.
That said, if really they want your DNA, they can get it off anything you touch in public, car door handle, bank pen, stair rail, computer mouse, elevator button, etc...
Three New York Taxis and two bike couriers can get through the intersection during the duration of that light.
Gedda fuq outta here! New York Taxis and bike couriers don't wait furda frickin' light.
'Internship' doesn't necessarily mean they get pay, they just get credit.
No, they're getting paid.
Article: "The student workers received the equivalent of $243.97 per month as compensation for working six days a week, and clocking in 12 hours per day."
So, lesee, that's about 288 hours a month; about 85 cents(US) an hour.
I guess the valuable educational lesson here is: don't work in a Chinese factory.
Unfortunately, they were not asked to work for Foxconn. They were forced to work at Foxconn.
Best TSA pr0n line ever:
"That's not a gun!"
"the lack of gravity means smell - and taste - is impaired. So the food is bland."
Really.
How come nobody else reading Slashdot noticed this ludicrous statement? How can a lack of gravity "impair" smell? Do they mean the SENSE of smell or taste? What are they talking about?
This is correct. Your sense of taste and smell is diminished in zero G. You start slopping on the hot sauce pretty heavily.
Also you start to notice a sweet, metallic smell everywhere you go.
They haven't quite figured out why this happens yet, but since we are essentially big bags of water, and in zero G our internal fluid pressure changes, that may upset the way fluids move through our mucosa.
...only accept women if they've had hysterectomies or are on period suppressing medication.
Not that controversial. They better be on the (period suppressing) birth-control pill. You don't want any babies getting conceived on the journey.
From the article you linked to:
21 days is a lot less than the several months of a Mars journey.
No, you read this wrong...
What that means is; it could take you up to 21 days to choke one of these things down.
What surprises me is that the TSA scenario haven't been used in porn yet. (as far as I know.)
"Would you walk this way for a ... personal screening please."
Let's crunch the numbers, shall we:
Traditional pr0n:
-House rental in Chatsworth, California
$600/day
-Pizza box prop
$9.95
TSA pr0n:
-Airport terminal rental
$21,000/day
-Background extras
$3,200/day
-Backscatter X-ray scanner rental
$17,000/day
-pr0n that looks like this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0MAh0_Oa3iU/TQLtweY2OuI/AAAAAAAAE00/aomwDmV6nP0/s1600/Backscatter++8.jpg
---priceless!
Always bring some Vaseline to the Airports bathroom. I was told that some TSA agents do a very rough fingerjob.
Yeah - it's not that rough. Typically the screener puts his left hand on your left shoulder, his right hand on your right shoulder, and then will very gently start to finger probe your...
Actually they've come down quite a bit. Saw one @ SIGGRAPH for $1300. It looked like it could do parts big enough for a gun.
They had samples of a linked belt, utensils, and the grille of their truck, all printed.
At least we can handle homophones.
Look - who you want to have sex with is your business, don't parade it around here on /.
So an author can do the work 'for hire' for his own corporation and get preferential treatment?
Not really. A work of corporate authorship still only lasts 120 years after creation, or 95 years after publication (whichever is earlier.)
So, if you are say, a young, 20 year-old songwriter, your personal copyright would last your lifetime (assuming you live to 80, that would be 60 more years) plus 70 more years after you die. That would be 130 years of protection.
If you created a music company, and the song was a "work for hire" for them, you would only get 95 years of protection.
That's a great callback!
I can picture the scene now...
TITLE: "How Bruce Willis originally got his iTunes music collection"
SCENE 1: Captain Koons & Young Bruce
INT. 60'S LIVING ROOM - DAY
Captain Koons: Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were trapped in that Cupertino "pit of hell" together over five years.
This iPod was on your Daddy's arm when he was grabbed by the Apple DRM cops. He was captured and put in an Apple store in the mall. He knew if the Apple ‘geniuses’ ever saw that iTunes music collection, that it'd be confiscated; taken away.
The way your Dad looked at it, this music collection was your birthright. He'd be damned if any ‘geniuses’ were gonna put their greasy, hipster hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass.
Five long years, he wore this iPod up his ass. And then he died of dysentery, he gave me the iPod.
I hid this uncomfortable hunk of stainless steel up my ass for two years. Thank god it has rounded corners. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the iPod to you.